Zeitlos Back Again in Thoroughbred Club of America

Zeitlos, winner of the 2024 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes (G2), will look to add a repeat victory in the 6-furlong race when she faces a field of six fillies and mares Oct. 4 at Keeneland. The race is a Breeders' Cup Challenge Series event, which gives the winner an automatic berth to the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) Nov. 1 at Del Mar. One of those contenders Zeitlos will face is grade 1 winner Vahva, who has earned more than $2 million and won five graded stakes in her 18-race career. The Cherie DeVaux trainee comes into the race off a second-place finish in the Misty Bennett Pink Ribbon Stakes Aug. 22. It was announced earlier in the week the 5-year-old daughter of Gun Runner will sell at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 4. Trained by Steve Asmussen for Stonestreet Stables and Peter Leidel, Zeitlos has been winless in her last three starts—most recently fifth in the Ladies Turf Sprint Stakes (G2T) at Kentucky Downs. Prior to that, she finished second, a half-length behind Future Is Now in the Caress Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga Race Course. Last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) runner-up Vodka With a Twist is in search of her first graded stakes win following a second in the Charles Town Oaks (G2) Aug. 22. The filly by Thousand Words has placed in six graded events. Honorable Miss Stakes (G2) winner Halina's Forte, Prioress Stakes (G3) winner Praying, Long Neck Paula, and Taxed round out the field.